saudade

Betekenis (Engels)

wistfulness, melancholy, nostalgia, yearning, longing; the feeling of missing something or someone

Sinonieme

anelo

nostalgia

anseio

desejo

suspiro

saudades de casa

Vertalings

Sehnsucht

nostalgie

nostalgia

longing

yearning

mal du pays

νοσταλγία

homesickness

nostalgia

nostalgia

heimwee

brama

Heimweh

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/sawˈda.d͡ʒi/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Latyn: solitas

In summary

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese soydade, from Latin sōlitātem (“solitude”). The modern saudade may owe its irregular development to one or more of the following factors:
* Analogy with Arabic سَوْدَاء (sawdāʔ, “melancholy”, literally “black bile”)
* Learned hypercorrection; compare the 'vulgar' coisa alongside the Latinism causa
* Analogy with words such as saudar (“to wish good health”) or the archaic saudade ("salvation" < *salūtātem)